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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

About Deep Father Fear
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To get the PFA Player of the Year is a fantastic honour. It's the highest honour you can get because it's voted by your fellow peers.

Because Fantastic Fellow Get
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

1930s Almost Almost Nothing Early
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

Become Began Characters Complicated
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Wait Everything Right Perfect
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

Even Got House Invited
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Big Curiously Full Life
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Bringing Care Great Just
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Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Artistic Culture Earth Evolving
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As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.

Culture Designer Interested Lifeline
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My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

Dad Engineer He Immigrant
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From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the '90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.

Age Clothes Hip-Hop Kid
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I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.
Care Education Kid Off
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If they want war, we will fight, but I will make sure my people are protected from coronavirus

Coronavirus War Fight Protected
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Dull Found Lately Read
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I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Science Modern Simple
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America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

America Haunted Apparition Steeped
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When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Did First Had IThink
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But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Associated Away Being Carried
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The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

Acting Actress Became Because
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I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle that voice. But I don't feel that way in Shondaland. I feel like I am accepted into a world where I'm a part of the narrative - I'm a part of it.

Accepted Actor Almost Always
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I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.

Actress Always Aspire Aspired
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I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated.

Challenged Convenient Even Know
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Any Formula Great More
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I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

Distracted Easily Get Joke
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I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Basketball Championships Every Fulfilled
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When hip-hop came along, men and women started dressing down as a form of rebellion.

When Hip-hop Came Along
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I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
Basketball Day Every EveryDay
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I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Wanted Remind Myself Others
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I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.

Gone Down Several Paths
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
Child Miseducated Lost
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I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'

I Began My Studies
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I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

Started Singing Because Was
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In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

In Music Wanted Make
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Defeat Exist Interested Not Interested
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

According Aspect Between Dad
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Amount Been Classical Classical Music
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I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

After Boy DJ He
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Artist Became Educating IPod
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I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.

Animated Charles Children Drawing
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

View Each Gain Created
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Society Fullness People Create
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Purpose Art Serve Indict
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Democracy Educated Grounded Healthy
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Story Part Work History
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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Courts Law Enforce Jails
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Problems World Solved Skeptics
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If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

People Head Bow Confidence
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Dedicated Great Task Honored
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